The Seasons. By the Great Masters of Japanese Prints (Box Set). Masterpieces of Japanese Prints Collection.
Hazan| N° d'inventaire | 25571 |
| Format | 12 x 17.5 |
| Détails | 226 p., numerous color illustrations, leporello in slipcase. |
| Publication | Paris, 2018 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782754114905 |
Great travelers and nature enthusiasts, Hokusai (1760-1849) and Hiroshige (1797-1858) revolutionized the art of Japanese printmaking at the end of the 18th century , bringing the landscape genre to its peak. Populating their views with scenes from everyday life, they largely appropriated the theme of the seasons, at the heart of Japanese thought since the end of the Yamato period (250-710). From the 6th century , poets took up the subject by associating it with their own iconography: the blossoming of cherry trees. becomes the great symbol of spring and the sun that of summer. Autumn calls for the contemplation of maple leaves and the moon. Winter comes with the first snows… Artists, largely influenced by the Chinese model, will then appropriate this simplified vision of the cycle of nature. From the Heian period (794-1185) new genres linked to the cycle of nature emerged, such as paintings of the four seasons, the twelve months of the year and famous places. However, it was in the Edo period (1600-1868) that the theme of nature achieved its greatest success with prints, and more particularly with landscapes, conducive to the representation of the seasons. With the illustrious Hokusai and Hiroshige as leaders, landscape artists captured all the variations of nature, focusing on snowy scenes as well as sunny cherry gardens, walkers fighting against the rain or admiring the glowing maple leaves. This genre would survive them, in Japan but also in the West where it would have a considerable influence on the work of the Impressionists. It would be reborn at the beginning of the 20th century , with the last great Japanese masters of landscape and print, and Hasui (1883-1957) who was as attached as Hokusai and Hiroshige to the representation of the seasons. From then on, the immutable cycle of nature blended into a modern landscape, disrupted by the great changes of the second half of the 20th century . Hasui updated this timeless theme, still at the heart of the concerns of Japan today.
This small box set celebrates this subject so dear to the Japanese by offering a selection of the most famous prints, from the work of the greatest landscape artists, from the time of Hokusai to that of Hasui, and by accompanying them with an explanatory booklet.
Great travelers and nature enthusiasts, Hokusai (1760-1849) and Hiroshige (1797-1858) revolutionized the art of Japanese printmaking at the end of the 18th century , bringing the landscape genre to its peak. Populating their views with scenes from everyday life, they largely appropriated the theme of the seasons, at the heart of Japanese thought since the end of the Yamato period (250-710). From the 6th century , poets took up the subject by associating it with their own iconography: the blossoming of cherry trees. becomes the great symbol of spring and the sun that of summer. Autumn calls for the contemplation of maple leaves and the moon. Winter comes with the first snows… Artists, largely influenced by the Chinese model, will then appropriate this simplified vision of the cycle of nature. From the Heian period (794-1185) new genres linked to the cycle of nature emerged, such as paintings of the four seasons, the twelve months of the year and famous places. However, it was in the Edo period (1600-1868) that the theme of nature achieved its greatest success with prints, and more particularly with landscapes, conducive to the representation of the seasons. With the illustrious Hokusai and Hiroshige as leaders, landscape artists captured all the variations of nature, focusing on snowy scenes as well as sunny cherry gardens, walkers fighting against the rain or admiring the glowing maple leaves. This genre would survive them, in Japan but also in the West where it would have a considerable influence on the work of the Impressionists. It would be reborn at the beginning of the 20th century , with the last great Japanese masters of landscape and print, and Hasui (1883-1957) who was as attached as Hokusai and Hiroshige to the representation of the seasons. From then on, the immutable cycle of nature blended into a modern landscape, disrupted by the great changes of the second half of the 20th century . Hasui updated this timeless theme, still at the heart of the concerns of Japan today.
This small box set celebrates this subject so dear to the Japanese by offering a selection of the most famous prints, from the work of the greatest landscape artists, from the time of Hokusai to that of Hasui, and by accompanying them with an explanatory booklet.